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15 Best Things to Do in Plainfield (IL)

First settled by Euro-Americans almost 200 years ago, Plainfield is a village in Chicago’s Southwest Suburbs. This is a fast-growing community, with a population that has increased ten-fold to 44,000 since 1990. Yet in the center of Plainfield is an amiable downtown with preserved old buildings, adjacent parks, diverse restaurants and enticing little shops. People …

In sparsely populated Windham County, the small town of Plainfield is made up of the four villages of Plainfield, Moosup, Wauregan and Central Village. Safe to say that activities in this quiet part of Connecticut are rural and outdoors, like woodland hikes in rare swamp habitats, visits to farms with corn mazes and fishing at …